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Hello all,
I've recently downloaded Winny and just can't seem to get it to work. All my nodes just say "waiting" and over on the right, under the "preference" tab, it gives me a zero, then a negative number. I can't ever pull up any "hits" when I do even a simple search for a common word like "AVI."

So, I thought I'd try "Share" out. However, all the links I'm finding are DEAD! Does anyone know where I can download a recent version??

If anyone can help with either of my situations, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

So Share died, and PD is the new thang, supposedly. Why in the hell is it using 50% CPU on average, though? Is there something wrong with my installation? I'd get it if it was hashing up files or something from the upload directory, but I'm not even doing anything. It has somehow managed to use up 3h26m of CPU time on a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo in 3h15m (dual core, though, so roughly 50% constant use). This seems insane.

It is, but that's how it's suppossed to be. I have yet to fill up my unity folder, but I'm guessing it has something to do with files still downloading to it. Unity is supposedly a storage of various file fragments from a variety users, probably cached or encrypted in some way. <_<?

I have a question: How do you search for files? ^^; I doubt PD compiles a full index of every available file ever upped from which you can search...

I have a question: How do you search for files? ^^; I doubt PD compiles a full index of every available file ever upped from which you can search...

What do you mean by search, exactly? I have it running like this, which seems to run a roaming search that collects file info. Lower left area shows the search tree, lower right is the file list. Haven't figured out if there are any clusters or triggers yet, and it's incredibly slow to get a file, compared to Share.

I'm kind of flying blind, but I have got PD working and downloading things. The speed is very variable: sometimes as fast as WinNY, often really slow.

It takes up a lot of RAM (about 90Mb right now) but only a couple of percent of CPU. And of course there's that massive cache folder "unity." Mine's up to about 9Gb now, after three weeks or so. I plan to let it get to 20Gb rather than 40Gb and trim it after that. We'll see.

I find that you can poke a search simply by clicking on the keyword. An exclamation mark shows up after it for a while, while it seems to be searching. But since I find new files every time I go back to some keywords, I suspect it keeps searching all your keywords whether you click on them or not. It seems to me that I can sometimes poke a dead download by right-clicking on the file in the search window and choosing "download" again.

I never did get Share to give me much, but I have used WinNY very happily for a couple of years. However, I think our Japanese benefactors are starting now to make the move to PD, because of recent events, so I am, too.

I'm sorry I can't really answer people's questions, since it seemed a miracle to me when the thing started working properly. One thing I did was to manually upload some big files to get the unity cache over 2 Gb to start. You have to add keywords for each file you upload (Japanese keywords, hopefully). And you should review every file you download: click the "complete" tab and then right-click each completed file and rank it, especially for being what it purports to be. That's the big advantage of PD: you can see whether other people approved of the file or not before you go to the trouble of downloading it.

I don't see any equivalent of Share's and WinNY's clusters, just keywords. I suspect it makes sense to tree your keywords, with general categories of things at the top level, sub-categories under that, and individual files after that.

It takes up a lot of RAM (about 90Mb right now) but only a couple of percent of CPU. And of course there's that massive cache folder "unity." Mine's up to about 9Gb now, after three weeks or so. I plan to let it get to 20Gb rather than 40Gb and trim it after that. We'll see.

Your current downloads are stored in the "unity" folder too, so it donīt seem a good idea to trim it ,and PD detects if some file on the unity folder is deleted , i donīt know if it breaks everything if you remove something or not( but you can break pieces of your download if you do ). need to test a little more at home.
Here PD donīt use more than 30Mb of ram ( been running for 6 hours )

Meh, my unity directory is never over 5GB, I gave it a harddrive of its own. Running PD in wine is fine, the fonts are pretty decently sized for me, and overall it runs well. Just the occasional ram and cpu flood for 3 seconds once an hour or so, otherwise its fine.

I've started to like perfect dark now. Not only did I find a few HD raws I lost in a RAID snafu that were reasonably old, bit I downloaded lossless rips of nearly all the Reitaisai 5 CD releases (about 11 GB worth) in about 2 hours.

I think the userbase probably quadrupled since the share arrests... In any case my unity is 40 GB, and it takes little cpu and easily hits speeds of 4-5 MB/s on my fiber, but then again I'm IN tokyo, so your speeds may vary.

So Share died, and PD is the new thang, supposedly. Why in the hell is it using 50% CPU on average, though? Is there something wrong with my installation? I'd get it if it was hashing up files or something from the upload directory, but I'm not even doing anything. It has somehow managed to use up 3h26m of CPU time on a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo in 3h15m (dual core, though, so roughly 50% constant use). This seems insane.

Quoting myself is a bit weird, but I figured out why it ate so much CPU -- I was using a bandwidth limiter to keep it down to 15kb/s upload. Once I removed that cap (after getting an upgraded internet connection) CPU usage dropped to 1-4%.

So I got a problem. I've had this problem ever since getting my wireless router (WNR834M) last August. I used to be able to download stuff from winny and share, no problem, but ever since I got this wireless router, its been denying me access to download files from winny and share. And now, I have the same problem with perfect dark, always telling me that an open port is NOT confirmed. How do I fix this issue? Is it the wireless router?